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Bon Jovi, Billy Eilish, other musicians implore AI devs to think of humanity

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I don't think they have much to worry about. With ChatGPT or MicroSoft Co-Pilot it doesn't take long to realize that you are speaking with a computer that isn't really able to communicate other than parrot back grammatically correct statements.

Even "Devon" the AI software engineer extraordinaire (https://www.cognition-labs.com/introducing-devin) has a team of software engineers programming it. One would think with as much hype as they are trying to generate the AL "Devon" would be programming itself. Sadly, it isn't.

I just consider ChatGPT to be this generation's Eliza (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA)

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Rust developers at Google are twice as productive as C++ teams

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Re: confidence

"Plus, I guess, a system that will check memory accesses rather than just blindly reading/writing to whatever the pointer is set to (or however long the array is). I don't know why nobody ever added that to C so it could be made to behave better."

valgrind(https://valgrind.org) does a great job of finding memory errors. I have also used a bounds checker on Windows and purify on sun os.

Some lint tools are also capable to a more limited extent.

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Re: likely to be a huge bias

It is even gets better, the NSA report references a series of blogs where Google, Microsoft and others just give common knowledge (without any real data) that C/C++ has memory issues. They present no statistics to back up their claims.

Having worked on several C/C++ projects, these memory issues generally stem from type issues - for example, the returned of a function is either an error code or the length of an array. This is the type of error that can impact most languages where someone misinterprets what the function returns and misuses that returned value.

As I see it, Rust advocate at Google references the White House/NSA who, in turn, references Google.

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WTF is Boeing on? Not just customer databases lying around on the web. 787 jetliner code, too, security bugs and all

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Re: How many networks?

It is security through obscurity, no doubt about it.

They really need to physically separate the flight control network from the other 2 networks, as you don't want the possibility of the DOS style attack.

They don't really need separate sensors for each of the networks as the sensors should just be read only.

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How alien civilizations deal with climate is a measure of how smart they are. Just sayin'...

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I suggest that they also should consider biological models for civilizations. For example, yeast in a vat with some sugar and hops would be a class 1 civilization model. It consumes all of the resources in the vat and eventually dies in its own excrement.

Perhaps a class 2 model would be lichen, which provide a space for algae to live and both the lichen and algae live off of each other.

Disclamer here, I am not a biologist, I just like consuming yeast excrement and can appreciate the beauty that is life.

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